March 12, 2012

Former federal prosecutor wants leak suit against DOJ revived

03/12/12: The Blog of Legal Times reports that a former prosecutor who was acquitted on obstruction charges wants a federal appeals court in Washington to restart his privacy suit against the US Justice Department over allegations the government leaked information to a reporter. The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit today heard argument in the dispute for nearly an hour. Richard Convertino filed a privacy suit in Washington over the alleged DOJ leak to the Detroit Free Press. The newspaper in 2004 wrote about the government’s ethics investigation against Convertino stemming from his role in a terror-related prosecution.